With its deep bows to Monument Valley and other distant frontiers, its choked-off military men struggling with codes of honor and unforgiving environments, Windtalkers could have easily unspooled under the name John Ford. Such comparisons should not be made lightly or uncritically. This is big, [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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